I QUIT

By debunking the claims made for Tiresias Screenfont, I obviate most anyone’s need to blow 17,000 U.S. on it.

You can thank me later.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.21 16:25. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/21/debunk/

The newest “leaked” screenshots (a ridiculous manufactured term that demands its own quotation marks, rather like the “lost” episodes of a 1950s television series) of Windows Longhorn show that “Microsoft (R) Windows (R)” typography is alive and well:

Screenshot shows warning reading Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Codename Longhorn

Niggaz, please. This shit is embarrassing.

Meanwhile, the accessibility control panel one-ups Apple in the exercise of epitomizing disability in an icon. They also seem to have boiled the whole enterprise down to (mostly) blindness and a bit of deafness. That ought to simplify my life a little, huh?

Icon shows a square with a diamond in the centre and arrows pointing to all four corners. Legend reads: Accessibility. Optimize for blindness. Replace sounds with visual cues

“I am primed and ready for gayness.” “I am primed and optimized for blindness.”

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.20 19:59. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/20/r/

How do they get those giant cranes onto construction sites? They use other cranes to build them.

Crane on right side, platform of stationary crane on left
Orange crane hoists large steel panel to platform of stationary crane

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.19 16:28. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/19/cranes/

It figures that Alaskans would be übersurvivalists and would still feel cheated! that Y2K didn’t result in apocalypse after all.

Alaska license plate reads AK 2K and Alaska Gold Rush Centennial

(If the notation really refers to the Alaska Gold Rush Centennial [Caslon Antique, anyone?], then why doesn’t it read AK 1K or AK K?)

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.19 16:27. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/19/ak2k/

I have a vague memory of Letraset faces like this one.

Sign over barred-up store reads COLLECT-O-MANIA in drop-shadow type

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.19 16:26. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/19/collect-o-mania/

The Safari/OmniWeb version. And am I ever frigging tired of Safari’s crashing and losing tabs and the inability to easily export bookmarks from either of them. (Don’t even think of mentioning Saft.) [continue with: B-links, July 18 →]

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.18 20:22. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/18/b-links-3/

Wow, this takes me back. Do they also still make Hakkapeliitta fog lamps and driving lamps?

Covers on twin driving lamps attached to a Mitsubishi bumper read Comet 500 Hella in Helvetica

(Hella, admittedly, fits on a lamp cover hella more conveniently than Hakkapeliitta would. And it’s a classic Helvetica usage. But are you supposed to stop your car in the pouring rain, walk out to the front bumper [at risk of being hit by another vehicle], and pull off the antimacassars just so you can switch the lights on?)

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.18 18:42. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/18/hella/

Lucida fucking Fax is not fucking “nostalgic,” unless you were born in the 1980s.

Sign behind store window reads ‘Nostalgic’ in Lucida Fax

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.18 18:41. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/18/nostalgic/

I don’t get this at all. The black type seems OK, I guess (and appears to show the Nastaliq writing style, with the shifting and angled baselines).

Two lines or Urdu are followed by a phone number, all in black type with blue outlines

So why’d they have to go and outline everything in blue ballpoint?

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.07.18 18:38. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/07/18/jittery/

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